Steven Dargaville

Steven Dargaville is a Research Fellow in the Department of Earth Science & Engineering at Imperial College London, part of the Faculty of Engineering. His research focuses on numerical methods for energy systems, including battery chemistry modeling and Boltzmann transport applications. He holds an Orcid identifier (0000-0002-8890-7437) and is affiliated with the Royal School of Mines campus. His work emphasizes parallel computing, adaptive mesh refinement, and finite element methods applied to nuclear science and radiative transfer.

Research Interests:

• Modeling phase transitions in LiFePO₄ batteries
• Numerical methods for Boltzmann transport (e.g., multigrid, adaptive angular discretization)
• Applications in civil nuclear energy, radiative transfer, and lattice Boltzmann methods

Publications Trends: Recent work (2020–2025) emphasizes scalable algorithms for Boltzmann transport, AI integration in nuclear modeling, and angular adaptivity techniques. Earlier research (2010–2015) centered on LiFePO₄ cathode phase behavior using phase-field models.

Awards: None explicitly listed in the provided text.

Advising/Grants: No student names or grant details provided. His research is likely funded through Imperial College projects or external grants in computational physics/engineering.

Labs/Teams: Likely affiliated with Imperial’s Energy Futures Lab or Nuclear Energy Systems Group, though exact lab names are unspecified.